WHY TALK OF SECESSION?

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1930, Page 6

WHY TALK OF SECESSION?

EMPIRE PARTNERSHIP, H/ ' • ——. ’ .T / , OPINIONS OF MR. G. FORBES CANADIAN TARIFF DIFFICULTYr ’ ■ THE NEGOTIATIONS NOT CLOSED. By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright Rec. 5.5 p.m. ' London, Sept. 2T. “I trust the demand for' a declaration of tho right to secession or whatever it is to be will not bo pressed, or made too prominent an issue at the Imperial " inference,” said the Hon. G. W. Forbes to-day. “It may be said that the very fact that we are partners in the Empire implies, the right to leave partnership under certain conditions, but whytalk about it? . “No Dominion wants to secede .or is likely to want to do so,” continued the New Zealand Prime J&iiisteri a business firm goes discussing, dissolution of partnership instead of- getting on with its business such tails hardly helps it or commands public confidence. We are here on the most’ important business of bringing tie Empird into closer trade relations and improving the feeling between the different parts. Let us” get on With that business instead of tallying about secession.” Mr. Forbes has been discussing the question of New Zealand exchange rates, which are the same as the Australian, though New Zealand has no adverse balance of trade.' He said the banks apparently found great difficulty in differentiating between the rates twin* to the close financial relations between New Zealand and Australia. Mr. Forbes states that he conversed with both the Canadian Prime Minister and the Minister of Commerce regarding preference for New Zealand butter. He pointed out that New Zealand concessions outbalanced Canadian concessions upon the total inter-Dominion trade. • '-v.

Mr. Forbes assured Mr. R. B. Bennett that New Zealand did.'not desire a tariff war and it was agreed. to continue the discussions in London.